Category: Android Development

After several leaks and rumours, Google has officially revealed that Android 8.0 will be indeed known as Android Oreo. Oreo extends the Google tradition to name each Android version after a sweet treat and some of the previous Android version monikers...

Just over 10 hours from now, Google will be officially launching the next major Android release in the form of version 8.0 aka Android O. Although the final moniker of the release is still under the wraps, the last tease from...

It is as if there is already not enough to worry about smartphone security that there is a new avenue for malicious hackers to completely hijack your phone. A research indicates that replacement screens with secrets chips can be used to...

Google on Thursday announced during the I/O 2015 keynote that Play Store saw over 50 billion app installs over the past year and it is now accessible to more than one billion users every month. Now, to help the developers reach...

Google revealed at the ongoing I/O developer conference earlier today that it has started rolling out Google Play services v7.5 for the Android devices around the world. The new version brings a number of new APIs for developers (details here), but...

Soon after taking the wraps off the new Android M at the ongoing I/O developer Conference, Google released the Android M Preview SDK for the developers, so that they can begin making their applications ready for the final Android M release...

Google on Thursday unveiled the next version of Android in the form of Android M. It will be officially arriving to devices in Q3 this year, but the company is releasing the developer preview images today for select Nexus devices. According...

Looks like the built-in factory reset function is not doing its job in most Android devices. According to a recent research paper, an estimated 500 million Android devices are susceptible to the recovery of personal information like logins, emails, contacts and...

Google is reportedly planning to add native support for fingerprint authentication in the next version of Android (tentatively named as Android M). While the implementation details of the new feature are unclear at this point, Buzzfeed is reporting that the search...

Within weeks of the releasing the version 5.1 of Android, Google has rolled-out Android 5.1.1. As you can expect with a small increase in the version number, it is merely a bug-fixing update. Although like most minor Android upgrades, Google has...